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• Meet

  ·adv <<Meetly>>. II. Meet ·adj Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. III. Mee...

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• Her

  (·pron ·pl) ·Alt. of <<Here>>. II. Her ·pron & ·adj The form of the objective and the possessive ca...

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• Help-meet

  (Heb. ezer ke-negdo; i.e., "a help as his counterpart" = a help suitable to him), a wife (Gen. 2:18-...

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• back-her

  The order, in steam-navigation, directing the engineer to reverse the movement of the cranks and urg...

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• ease her!

  In a steamer, is the command to reduce the speed of the engine, preparatory to "stop her," or before...

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• slow her!

  In steam navigation, the same as "Ease her!" ...

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• snubbing her

  Bringing a ship up suddenly with an anchor, and short range of cable, yet without jerking. [Said to ...

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• stop her!

  An order to check the cable in being payed out. Also, a self-explanatory phrase to direct the engine...

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• answers her helm

  When a ship obeys the rudder or steers. ...

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• dragging on her

  Said of a vessel in chase, or rounding a point, when she is obliged to carry more canvas to a fresh ...

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• eyes of her

  The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In olden times, and now in Spanish and Itali...

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• give her sheet

  The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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• hang on her!

  In rowing, is the order to stretch out to the utmost to preserve or increase head-way on the boat. ...

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• haul her wind

  Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind. ♦ Haul your wind, or haul to the wind, signif...

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• keep her own

  Not to fall off; not driven back by tide. ...

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• keeping her way

  The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

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• lost her way

  When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor. ...

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• pricking her off

  Marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to show her situa...

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• woman and her husband

  A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband. ...

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• lay her course, to

  To be able to sail in the direction wished for, however barely the wind permits it. ...

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• luff and touch her!

  Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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• steer her course, to

  Going with the wind fair enough to lay her course. ...

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• odds plut and her nails

  A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

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• to set her cap for him

  To direct her attentions to him; to endeavor to win his affections. Dr. Johnson notices the phrase, ...

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• give her so and so

  The direction of the officer of the watch to the midshipman, reporting the rate of sailing by the lo...

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• run away with her anchor

  Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...

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• room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.

  Stealing poultry. ...

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